Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
This week I have a cozy mystery and two horror novels to share, take a look:
Startling monsters and occult oddities abound in this chilling horror Western as a girl journeys across the haunted Montana Territory to rescue her father from an otherworldly creature.
Charlie’s life is a lonely one. While other twelve-year-olds are in school, she spends her days skinning the animals her mercurial father hunts in the woods just outside their cabin. And the woods and its twisted creatures—an owl with four wings, a boar with two heads, a fox with gills—are becoming stranger by the day.
One night, a nightmarish beast appears and drags Charlie’s father into the wilderness. To find him, she enlists the aid of two unlikely allies also in search of the beast: an Englishman with a connection to a mysterious occult society and a Northern Cheyenne policeman exiled for a crime he didn’t commit. Yet as the trio prepare for the confrontation with the beast, Charlie must decide if her father, a brusque man who has always withheld his affection, is ultimately worth saving.
With its blend of Western grit and supernatural menace, The Unheld is an unsettling and atmospheric horror novel about loneliness, human connection, and how we find each other in a world that seems designed to alienate. With this assured debut, Luke Larkin marks his arrival in the genre and proves the American frontier still harbors untapped stories in its shadows.
The Unheld by Luke Larkin. Releases in August 2026 from Hyperion Avenue. I’m a big fan of the horror/western mash-up, and not only do I love this cover, but the story sounds fascinating!
A fake detective agency. A real murder. And some very real sparks between the amateur sleuths attempting to solve it—unravel the clues in this captivating rom-com mystery from the author of Definitely Maybe Not a Detective.
Emersyn Gray is seriously rethinking her recent decision to become a private detective. As much as she needs the money, following cheating husbands and catching them in compromising positions isn’t exactly the way Emersyn wants to spend her days.
But then a potential new client approaches Wyatt Investigations, wanting to hire Emersyn and her colleague, Wyatt, to look into the death of her brother, who seemed perfectly fine until he got a job at a local funeral home. There, he became secretive and withdrawn . . . before turning up dead. The police ruled his death an accident, but his sister is certain he was murdered. Emersyn, having lost her own brother less than a year ago, simply can’t say no to the grieving sister.
When Emersyn and Wyatt take on the case, they soon suspect that the funeral home is a front for something sinister. With buried secrets aplenty, Emersyn and Wyatt must navigate a winding investigative path with more tripping hazards than an overgrown cemetery. Add to that their undeniable chemistry and the fact that they can’t agree on who’s in charge of their agency, and the pair are left with a casket full of troubles as they try to dig up the truth before they end up digging their own graves.
We Are Never Ever Solving This Murder by Sarah Fox. Releases in January 2027 from Bantam. I’m excited there’s a follow up to Definitely Maybe Not a Detective, which I recently read and loved! These books are outside my usual speculative fiction genre, but it’s so nice to change things up now and then!
The Housemaid meets The Haunting of Bly Manor in this relentless and claustrophobic gothic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author CG Drews.
When Wren Ott takes a job as a nanny to a one-year old baby boy, she’s practically desperate. She’ll do anything to avoid being homeless again. Anything to hide from her marriage that went south and the husband that still haunts her. The excellent salary and luxurious home are just a bonus.
Cadence Cresswell seems disconnected and lost in the massive, isolated Cresswell Mansion. She has little interest in the baby. Her mood swings are terrible. And her husband, the ruthless Lucien Cresswell, is only home when it suits him.
But Lucien is playing a dangerous game, and Wren is onto him. Now it’s up to Wren to protect the lady of the house and her young charge, before Lucien’s actions push them past the brink of their sanity.
Or at least that’s what you’ll think.
This is How You Lie by C.G. Drews. Releases in March 2027 from St. Martin’s Press. I have so many C.G. Drews books on my TBR, but have yet to read one, for some reason. But this sounds right up my alley!
As ever, a fascinating collection of books, Tammy. I love the sound of We Are Never Ever Solving This Murder. But the cover of This Is How You Lie is truly eye-catching:).
I used to read CG Drews’ blog (Paper Fury) all the time and have been meaning to try their work for so long, but… somehow I never get round to it. This one’s very tempting!